Help:Cloud Services introduction

Welcome to Wikimedia Cloud Services (WMCS)!

WMCS is a virtualization cluster using OpenStack Compute which is separated into distinct projects. Each project is a collection of virtual machine instances that users administer and operate to benefit the Wikimedia free knowledge movement.

History

WMCS has been known as Wikimedia Labs until March 2nd 2017.

The "Labs" nomenclature became overloaded and often required clarification about what component of the ecosystem was being referred to. The WMCS team behind the historical "Labs" are launching a campaign to improve the language and branding surrounding products and services offered.

WMCS Products

• Virtual Private Servers (VPS) or users to develop and maintain projects that help Wikimedia.
• Tools Labs Platform as a Service (Paas) environment for running bots, webservices, scheduled jobs, and doing analysis
• Data as a Service (DaaS) offerings that include a real-time and sanitized production database replica, and NFS access to Wikimedia Dumps

Discovery and Administration

WMCS is working on a tool for read-only browsing of our projects at OpenStack Browser .